A report was drawn up against human rights activist Lev Ponomarev for calling for participation in an action in support of those involved in the Network and New Greatness cases.

Lev Ponomarev, a human rights activist and director of the movement For Human Rights, was charged with a repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Oleg Elanchik, an expert from the For Human Rights movement, told Novaya Gazeta about this.

The document, which the editors have at their disposal, says that Ponomarev posted a post on his Facebook page with a call to participate in the action "For our and your children", which took place near the FSB building on Lubyanka on October 28.

The protocol notes that the human rights activist's page is open for viewing by other Facebook users and that he has more than 8,000 subscribers.

The hearing on the administrative case of the human rights activist will be held in the Tverskoy District Court on December 5 at 10:00 am.

in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don On October 28, rallies were held in support of the defendants in the “Network” and “New Greatness” cases, which were organized by the parents of the accused with a demand to stop the criminal prosecution of their children.

According to OVD-Info , a total of about 60 people were detained in three cities. Most of them were released from police stations without a protocol being drawn up. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the events were not agreed with the authorities.

Earlier, Ponomarev was fined 10,000 rubles for a solo picket on July 23 in support of two defendants in the New Greatness case, Maria Dubovik and Anna Pavlikova. According to a presidential decree, during the World Cup and until July 25, any public events that were not agreed with the authorities were prohibited.

Recall that in the New Greatness case there are ten defendants who are accused of organizing an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). According to the case file, a man under the nickname "Ruslan D." invited the activists to transform the opposition chat into a political movement, wrote a political program and rented a building for holding “constituent assemblies”. Later it became clear that he was an informant or even a staff member of the special services.

There are 11 people involved in the Network case (also known as the Penza case). The investigation believes that they participated in a terrorist community (part 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code), which allegedly prepared an armed uprising and explosions during the presidential elections and the World Cup. The defendants in the case stated that they were tortured with electric current and demanded to confess.